Associate Professor; Massey Cancer Biology Program Co-Leader; Assistant Director for Basic Science, Global Oncology Program, Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center

Department: Pathology

Phone: (804) 828-7570

Email: Paula.Bos@vcuhealth.org

Paula D. Bos, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Cancer Biology Program Co-Leader at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center (MCC), where she also serves as Assistant Director for Basic Science for the Global Oncology Program. She holds a Ms. in Genetics from the National University of Misiones, Argentina where she performed molecular epidemiological studies of human papillomavirus infection and cervical cancer in guarani Indian and white women from the region. She obtained her PhD from Weill Cornell Medical College, where she delineated tissue-specific metastasis biology under the guidance of Dr Joan Massague. She did postdoctoral training in cancer immunology in Dr. Sasha Rudensky’s lab at Sloan-Kettering Institute. Her research group investigates tumor microenvironmental (TME) interactions that drive breast cancer progression and tissue-specific metastasis, in particular the brain. Her work utilizes genetic models to delineate tissue-specific function of regulatory T cells and other stromal cells, in primary and secondary organ tumor microenvironments with the long-term goal of providing novel TME targets for therapeutic intervention. She currently serves in the Board of the Metastasis Research Society, the AACR (American Association of Cancer Research) Tumor Microenvironment Steering Committee, and is a permanent member of the Tumor Immune Regulation study section at the NIH, and the Metastasis and Microenvironment Study Section at the American Cancer Society.

Research Interests: Tumor Microenvironment, Tissue Tropism, Regulatory T cells, Metastatic Dissemination, Breast Cancer. 

Dr. Bos Research Lab

Dr. Bos identifies an immune cell in breast cancer growth that could treat the disease

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Education

2015         Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sloan Kettering Institute 

2009         PhD, Weill Cornell Graduate School, Cornell University 

2000         Licenciada in Genetics, National University of Misiones, Argentina

Selected Awards & Honors  

2024          AACI Distinguished Scientist Award 

2022          MERIT Award, R37CA269249), NIH/NCI  

2021         American Cancer Society Scholar

2019          V Foundation Scholar

2018          Susan G. Komen Career Catalyst Award

Recent Grants & Funding

Active

2022 - 2029 NIH/NCI (1 R37 CA269249-01) Role: PI

2022 - 2025 American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant
                  (RSG-21-100-01-IBCD) Role: PI

2022 - 2026 Susan G. Komen Foundation (ASP241266272) Role: PI

Professional Service (outside)

2024 - 2028        Metastasis Research Society Board Member

2023 - present    Trials of Color Advisory Board Member

2022 - 2025        Tumor Microenvironment Working Group Steering Committee, AACR

2023 - 2029       NIH Therapeutic Immune Regulation (TIR) Study Section, Standing Member

2022 - 2025        American Cancer Society, Metastasis and Microenvironment Peer Review Committee Standing Member

Professional Service (VCU)

2024 - present    Biostatistics Shared Resource Advisory Committee

2023 - present    Proteomics Shared Resource Oversight Committee

2023 - present    Massey Comprehensive Cancer Global Oncology Program

2022 - 2023        Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Faculty Search Committee Co-Chair

2022 - present    DEI Guidance Committee, Massey Cancer Center

2022 - present    Cancer Biology Program Co-Leader, Massey Cancer Center

2021 - 2024        American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants Review Committee

2021 - present    Molecules to Medicine (M2M) Study Section

2021 - present    Massey Cancer Center IVIS Management

2020 - 2021        Seminar and Symposium Committee Co-Chair, Massey Cancer Center

2020 - present    MD-PhD Steering Committee Member

2020 - present    VCU VETAR Grant proposals Study Section Member

2019 - 2022        VCU Internal Selection Committee for Pew Biomedical Scholars award

2019 - 2021        Pathology Department Faculty Search Committee Member 

2019 - present    Pathology Department Science Club Founder and Coordinator

2019 - 2021        Pathology Department Faculty Search Committee Member

2018 - present    VCU Presidential Research Quest Fund – Ad Hoc Reviewer

2017 - present     VCU PostDoc Small Grant Program – Ad Hoc Reviewer

2018 - present    Flow Cytometry Core Facility Oversight Committee

2017 - present    Massey Cancer Center Pilot Reviewer

Recent Invited Presentations

2024          AACI Distinguished Scientist Award Keynote, Chicago

2024         The University of Kansas Medical Center, Biochemistry & Cancer Biology Department

2023         Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Pathology Grand Rounds

2023         Drexel University College of Medicine Seminar series, Graduate student special invitation

2023          Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2023          IV Cancer Symposium, Group of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries, Varadero, Cuba

2023         Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Medicine

2023         University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series, IL

2022         Metastasis Research Society Biennial Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2022         Basque Country University, School of Medicine and Nursing, Bilbao, Spain

Selected Publications

Complete List of Published Work in MyBibliography: Citations: 14838 (as of 08/2024)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/12_rgqaCBxX/bibliography/public/  

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